Statistical Terms Glossary

Material that is formed, developed or purchased from somewhere other than the place it is used.

Allocation of securities to members of the syndicate involved in the issue, in the Eurobond and U.S securities market.

The catch allowed to be taken from a stock, by a fishery during a specified time period. Often defined as the Total Allowable Catch (TAC), it is often allocated explicitly amongst those having a right of access to the stock.

The area (or volume) of seabed or receiving water body in which allows some excedance of the relevant environmental quality standard or some damage to the environment.

An all-resident enterprise group is an enterprise group composed only of enterprises that are all resident in the same country

See: Adjustable long-term putable security

See: Opportunity costs

Processes and techniques that fall outside of the government judicial process.

A type of motor energy other than the conventional fuels, petrol and diesel.

Securities issued in exchange for debt to all creditor banks of a specific country, enabling all these banks to reduce their base exposure by up to the same specified limit. These instruments are often called exit instruments or exit bonds.

While low pH can restrict plant growth in its own right, in most cases it is the dissolution of toxic metals, particularly aluminum (Al), which restricts plant growth. Aluminum is the most abundant metal in the earth’s crust and comprises some 7% of its mass. Dissolution of just a small fraction of the aluminium compounds in soils can result in serious Al toxicity to susceptible species.

See:Merger

These service functions which are not survival functions but improve the quality of life, for example, by providing a pleasing landscape for leisure pursuits.

Option containing a provision to the effect that it can be exercised at any time between the date of writing and the expiration date.

A document that gives its owner in a foreign country the right to a specified amount of stock of a United States company registered in the name of a United States depository bank.

An ADR is a negotiable certificate that represents ownership of the securities of a non-U.S. resident company. Although the securities underlying ADRs can be debt or money market instruments, the large majority are equities. An ADR allows a non-U.S. resident company to introduce its equity into the U.S. market in a form more readily acceptable to U.S. investors, such as in U.S. dollars, without needing to disclose all the information normally required by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Com-mission. A U.S. depository bank will purchase the underlying foreign security and then issue receipts in dollars for those securities to the U.S. investor. The receipts are registered. The investor can exchange the ADRs for the underlying security at any time.

Means the mid‑length of L.